Blue-Green Cities: Integrating urban flood risk management with green infrastructure

ISBN-13: 9780727764195

Colin Thorne

Opis

Blue-Green Cities communicates that urban flood risk management based on Blue-Green approaches is able to deliver multiple and valuable co-benefits to urban communities. With approaches designed to be evaluated, this book brings together carefully researched content from the Blue-Green Cities Research Project and illustrates how innovative urban flood risk management can be achieved using Blue-Green approaches. The book includes coverage of topics that reveal how cities can improve their risk management systems as well as focus on increased water security, carbon sequestration and enhanced productivity and economic vitality. This book will be an essential read for flood risk management professionals, policy makers and stakeholders in urban areas. It'll particularly appeal to city and local authority councillors, municipal, drainage and urban water engineers and developers, architects and landscape architects.

Spis treści

1. Urban Flood Risk Management: the Blue-Green Advantage, Prof. Colin Thorne, Nottingham Univ. (3,000) 2. Overcoming Barriers to Innovation in Urban Flood Risk Management, Dr Emily O’Donnell, Nottingham Univ. (4,000) 3. Coupled surface/sub-surface modelling to investigate the utility of Blue-Green infrastructure to manage Pluvial and Surface Water Flooding, Prof. Chris Kilsby, Newcastle Univ. (4,000) 4. 2-dimensionsal, hydrodynamic modelling to investigate the utility of Blue-Green approaches to manage flooding from urban streams, Prof. Nigel Wright, de Montford Univ. (4,000) 5. Performance of storm water treatments trains incorporating Blue-Green and grey infrastructure in managing water quantity and quality, Dr Scott Arthur, Heriot-Watt Univ. (4,000) 6. Restoration of urban streams to create Blue-Green assets and corridors, Dr Jenny Mant, Riccardo (4,000) 7. Understanding citizen and community behaviours and preferences with respect to Blue-Green infrastructure, Dr Jessica Lamond, Univ. West of England (4,000) 8. Evaluating the multiple co-benefits generated by Blue-Green spaces, corridors and infrastructure, Prof. Richard Fenner, Cambridge Univ. (4,000) 9. Applying the Flood Footprint concept to calculate the full costs of urban floods, Prof. Dabo Guan, UEA (4,000) 10. Towards a Blue-Green Future: the Newcastle declaration, National Policy and progress in building urban flood resilience in the UK, Prof. Colin Thorne, Nottingham Univ. (3,000)